Movies

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The Last Stand (2013)
Red Dawn (2012)
Hit & Run (2012)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)


Original Movie: King of Infinite Space (Tyler Dilts)
Original Movie: The Silk Road
Original Movie: Angola, Louisiana
Original Movie: The Burning Room (Michael Connelly)
Original Movie: Stay Close (Harlan Corben)
Original Movie: King's Deception (Steve Berry)
Original Movie: The Don - Donald Trump
Original Movie: Blood and Bullets - (war between Rock Machine and Hells Angels in Montreal late 1990's)

Original Movie: Adrenalized (Phil Collen - Def Leppard) (spring 2017)
Original Movie: 13 Witches (Sabine Mondestin)
Original Movie: Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

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November 14, 2015

Adrenalized

PLS media announced today that they have bought the rights for Phil Collen's book "Adrenalized" about his band "Def Leppard". Liberty Television will be making a made for TV movie that is scheduled to air in the spring of 2017. The plan is to divide the autobiography into 2 parts with part 1 (up to the car crash that take's Rick Allen's arm) to air in the spring 2017, and part 2 to air in the fall of 2017. The second part will depend on the ratings and other economics of the success of the first part of the story.

The movie will be very music heavy. Phil Collen has come on board as an Executive Producer, as had music producer extraordinaire Bob "Mutt" Lange.

John Stockwell has been taped to lead the writing crew, and direct the movie. Stockwell has a long list of credits as an actor, writer, director and producer. He was the writer of "Rock Star" starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston.

Chris Burke-Gaffney one of Liberty TV's most influential music contributors has also been added as a co-producer and will be the music director with input from Lange.

Intrepid Pictures along with PLS Media's own Maple Star Entertainment lead the production efforts.

A revelatory and redemptive memoir from the lead guitarist of the legendary band Def Leppard—the first book ever written by one of its members—chronicling the band’s extraordinary rise to superstardom and how they’ve maintained it for three decades.

Meet Phil Collen. You may know him as the lead guitarist in Def Leppard, whose signature song “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is still as widely enjoyed as when it debuted in 1988. Maybe you’ve heard of him as the rock star who gave up alcohol and meat more than twenty-five years ago. Most likely you’ve seen him shirtless—in photos or in real life—flaunting his impeccably toned body to appreciative female fans.

But it wasn’t always like this. Collen worked his way up from nothing, teaching himself guitar from scratch as a teenager by imitating his heroes. He slogged it out in London-based pub bands for years, long before Def Leppard formed and transformed from unknowns to icons (all thanks to a little album called Pyromania), from playing openers in near-empty arenas to headlining in those same stadiums and selling them out every night. But as Collen discovered, true overnight success is a myth. Like the other band members, he had to struggle and fight his way to the top; in the end, he says, “our work ethic saved us.” Just as it still does.

This is Collen’s story, starting with his first real taste of success and wild rock and roll excess as a member of the seminal glam rock outfit Girl. But once he joins Def Leppard, it’s also an amazing underdog tale featuring a bunch of ordinary working-class lads who rose to mega-stardom, overcoming incredible obstacles—such as drummer Rick Allen losing an arm in a car crash and the tragic death of guitarist Steve Clark, Phil’s musical soul mate, who lost his fight with alcoholism. Featuring personal, never-before-seen photos of Collen and his band mates on stage and off, Adrenalized is a fascinating account of the failures, triumphs, challenges, and rock-hard dedication it takes to make dreams come true.